White Company has two departments, Cutting and Finishing. The company uses a job$-$order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each department. The Cutting Department bases its rate on machine$-$hours, and the Finishing Department bases its rate on direct labor$-$hours. At the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates:

Using the predetermined overhead rates that you computed in requirement $(1),$ compute the total manufacturing cost assigned to Job $203.$

$3.$ Would you expect substantially different amounts of overhead cost to be assigned to some jobs if the company used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor$-$hours, rather than using departmental rates?

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